Snow Leopard on a White MacBook
Unfortunately, the notion that Snow Leopard is only a minor update to Leopard has born itself out to be true. Nonetheless, I didn’t drop too much ‘coin’ (as the young people say) on Snow Leopard, so I’m not too distraught.
First, the nonstarters:
- Grand Central Dispatch
- OpenCL (no high end video card on this machine)
- Enabling multi-touch gestures and Chinese handwriting recognition on multi-touch trackpads (I don’t have a multi-touch trackpad)
Next, the features that have underdelivered:
- Faster start-up time (I already have a solid state hard drive; maybe that mitigated some of the startup gains. At any rate, I didn’t notice much of a difference.)
- Easy install (My hard drive wasn’t partitioned correctly; it took my 1/2 day to install.)
- New services architecture (Still can’t find a use for services.)
- Better protection against Malware (I’m still not worried about Malware on my machine.)
I don’t like the fact that ’show a/v controls’ is no longer available under the Windows menu in QuickTime X. But, there are a few things I like about QuickTime X.
- Screen capture
- Movie recording
- Upload straight to Youtube
And here are a few more good things to round out the review:
- Scrollable stacks (Now I can see my whole Applications folder in the dock as a stack.)
- Huge icons (up to 512×512 pixels)
- Previews for movies (and other file types) in icons
- Better Expose (windows arranged on a grid; use space to zoom in)
- Windows minimize into icon on dock (fixes a problem I didn’t know I had)
Did I miss anything?